Sir Herbert George Holwell Duffus (30 August 1908 – 25 October 2002) was a Jamaican who served as the chief Justice of Jamaica and as acting governor-general of Jamaica.
[4] Following the retirement of Clifford Campbell on 28 February 1973, Duffus was appointed acting governor-general of Jamaica until the role was assumed by Florizel Glasspole on 27 June 1973.
[6][7] Following the events of "Bloody Sunday" in December 1973, President of Grenada Eric Gairy tasked Duffus with heading the Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law and Order and Police Brutality in Grenada.
[10] His younger brother, William Algernon Howell Duffus, born 13 August 1911, married Helen Hollinsed, sister of Elsie.
After 1975, he was Justice of the Appeal in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos until his death on 10 February 1981.